That’s my theory. 
You suck
Believe it or not this is his best OP to date.
Seriously, look it up…
I thought it would die a quick death like disco, but I have to admit that it’s lasted a tad longer.
It certainly started out as a part of DJ competitions between Jamaican immigrants. So rap and Jamaican dancehall music are indeed distant cousins.
The record cited in the article as being the first is kinda dubious, though. 'Dubious meaning I don’t hear it.
I listen to a lot of mainstream music and rap is mostly gone now, replaced by more of hip-hop and r&b type music. There’s still hints of rap in a lot of pop these days, but it’s nothing like the rap years from like 2002-2010 or so.
I’m not a huge fan of rap music but I do like some of it. I still contend that Eminem is one of the most brilliant lyricists/poets/whatevers to grace all of music, even if a lot of what he chooses to write about is extremely offensive and immature.
I’m sure there’s still lots of hardcore rap out there, but I certainly don’t hear it to the extent that I once did. I actually feel like a lot of mainstream music is getting back to more of an “orchestrated rock” feel which I dig.
Most likely string of characters in the username of a rap-hating doper: “c-o-w-b-o-y”.
It’s resentment. The CS mods get paid with Scotch, salmon steaks, and artichokes with garlic butter. The rest of us get a coffee mug and a CD of rap music performed by middle-aged white lawyers.
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It’s resentment. The CS mods get paid with Scotch, salmon steaks, and artichokes with garlic butter. The rest of us get a coffee mug and a CD of rap music performed by middle-aged white lawyers.
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So, speaking of which, how’d you like the CD? It’s good, right?
Not that I doubted you, but I did look.
Wow! You were 100% correct, zoid. 
I mean, just… WOW! :eek:
There’s a difference? Last I checked modern pop country music videos are just rap videos with white girls. Oh, and they talk about fishing and trucks instead of clubs and hos.
Well, it is an improvement over modern pop country music aping Huey Lewis and the News.
You’re right, of course, it’s the most awful noise. It really isn’t so much music as it is dreadfully repetitive vulgar rhymes. It seems to be crummy poetry recited over drum sequences. Still, it’s politically incorrect to disparage “Rap”. You will be labeled as racist and worse … conservative … if you do not pay it proper respect. I’m neither racist nor conservative, I just have good musical tastes. As a full time professional musician, I’m exposed to more “Rap” than I can possibly deal with … it’s become a rather persistent thorn in my side.
I don’t like modern Country music, either.
Not really. The stereotypical derpy answer to “What kind of music do you like?” is “Everything except country and rap.”
See what I mean?
At least it occasionally has a good beat. Country on the other hand both sounds horrible and has idiotic lyrics.
This is what I was thinking about. In India, especially, disco is not dead - how could it be?
As to rap, like others have said, sure a lot of it sucks - as does a lot of music. (I never understood how anyone claims to like “everything” of a band for example. There isn’t a single band in existence who puts out every piece of music at the same quality). Some rap is good. Some reggae is good. It’s OK if you don’t like it, though. I don’t like screaming heavy metal, and that’s OK too.
What still, and always will, weird me out, is white people trying to awkwardly rap. I love Sigourney Weaver, but in the movie Galaxy Quest there is an “extra” of her rapping, and it’s awful. It’s just so awkward and there isn’t any of the…soul? Whatever that core is in rap. It’s just a white lady, too old to be doing it, rapping in a very silly way.
(Oh, and I hate old country and love modern country. First time in my life I have country music on my music list.)
As far as I know, the OP has yet to return to a thread he’s started, so I guess we’re just talking to ourselves.
Pffft! Everybody knows Rap was created by Martians who taught it to Debbie Harry after they ate her car.
The worst is when they rap on your lawn.
The second sentence doesn’t contradict the first, though. I probably have a couple of bands where there’s not a single song I skip over or don’t like. It doesn’t mean I like all the songs equally, but I enjoy all of their output.
As for rap and hip hop music/production in general, I like it, though it is not the primary genre I listen to. I’m especially impressed that after, what, 35 years it’s still pissing people off wondering when it will go away. If rock only had that kind of staying power and impact.
Besides, at this point shouldn’t we have moved on to hating other genres? Hating rap is so 20th century. How’s about dubstep?